Dr Ermioni Xanthopoulou
Senior Lecturer in Law
Summary
Ermioni is a Senior Lecturer in law and Director of Research for Brunel Law School .
She is currently teaching EU, migration and refugee law.
Her research focuses on (EU) criminal, migration, and asylum law, as well as human rights.
Ermioni was granted the Athena Swan Research Award 2022-2023 to conduct her individual research project on externalising trends of asylum law. Together with Dr. Nayyeri, they published that the government's asylum policy was unlauful.
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Ermioni also participated in a three-year long research project funded by European Commission's Horizon 2020, as a member of the BUL team assessing human rights challenges posed by technological tools predicting migration.
Moreober, she is the author of ''. European Law Journal, pp. 218 - 233. ISSN: 1351-5993
She is also the author of ' published with Hart Publishing in 2020 and of several other publications.
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Her article, , was awarded the 2017 Common Market Law Review Prize for young academics.
Ermioni conducted her doctoral research at King's College London (2012-2017) with a scholarship from the Centre of European Law.
Qualifications
Fellow in Higher Education Academy, BEEC СʪÃÃÊÓƵ London Oct. 2018 - July 2019
Ph.D. in Law, King’s College London, The Dickson Poon School of Law Oct. 2012 – July 2017
Fully funded by the Centre of European Law Scholarship.
LL.M. (European Law, achieved Distinction)University of Surrey Oct. 2010 – Sept. 2011
Erasmus Exchange СʪÃÃÊÓƵ, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France Oct. 2008 – Feb. 2009
LL.B. (52 modules), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece Oct. 2005 – Jul. 2010
Newest selected publications
Tschalaer, M., Xanthaki, A. and Xanthopoulou, E. (2024) 'Human Rights Risks of Migration Flow Predictions and Policy Implications Within the EU'. Human Rights Quarterly: a comparative and international journal of the social sciences, humanities and law, 0 (accepted, in press). ISSN: 0275-0392
Xanthopoulou, E. (2024) ''. European Journal of Migration and Law, 26 (1). pp. 108 - 135. ISSN: 1388-364X
Xanthaki, A., Tschalaer, M. and Xanthopoulou, E. (2023) 'Migration Flows Prediction Tools and Asylum Policy Commitments in Alignment with Human Rights'. Place of publication: ITFLOWS. Available at: .
Xanthopoulou, E. (2023) ''. European Law Journal, 28 (4-6). pp. 218 - 233. ISSN: 1351-5993
Xanthopoulou, E. and Konstadinides, T. (2020) 'International Fight against Impunity and EU Counter-Terrorism Law: The Case of Foreign Terrorist Fighters', in Marin, L. and Montaldo, S. (eds.) The Fight Against Impunity in EU law. London : Hart. pp. 279 - 298. ISBN 10: 1-5099-2690-9. ISBN 13: 978-1-5099-2687-9.